File Sharing and Ownership issues in Vista

Scottland · 12 Nov 2008 at 22:42

Hi,

I'm having a little trouble getting the sharing/ownership settings right in Vista. I have a folder (downloads) which is shared to everyone across the network.

When new items are put in there from various download clients, they aren't visible over the network. The problem seems to arise because of the ownership settings when the file is created there. If I make a copy of the file in the same directory it is visible over the network, I can mess with the ownership settings of the original file as much as I want but it never shows on the network share.

Can anyone give me some help on how best to solve this?

Cheers

Scottland · 15 Nov 2008 at 21:20

Bump?

Scottland · 22 Nov 2008 at 21:13

Bump again, someone must know how I can force Vista to share all files irrespective of ownership?

Nanobot · 22 Nov 2008 at 21:20

Windows Discretionary Access Control. Last three paragraphs...

Scottland · 22 Nov 2008 at 21:34

Cheers, I'll have a read through. I can't believe it's that complicated an issue...

Deleted member 77746 · 22 Nov 2008 at 21:39

Scottland said:
Bump again, someone must know how I can force Vista to share all files irrespective of ownership?

Yeh??? Give NTFS guest / Everyone Full control???????????

Nanobot · 22 Nov 2008 at 21:41

I've done it on servers before, so I hope 'Primary Groups' is also in Vista as I'm not near one to check.

Scottland · 22 Nov 2008 at 21:43

optitech-uk said:
Yeh??? Give NTFS guest / Everyone Full control???????????

"Everyone" already has full control, and "Everyone" can read or write to the shared directory, but cannot see files created by download clients. If I make a copy of the file it works though.

Deleted member 77746 · 22 Nov 2008 at 22:03

Scottland said:
"Everyone" already has full control, and "Everyone" can read or write to the shared directory, but cannot see files created by download clients. If I make a copy of the file it works though.

It really sounds like an os issue to be honest have you played about loads with permissions e.t.c??? How often do you format the computer?

Nanobot · 22 Nov 2008 at 22:07

Are the download clients automated?
You could probably get a command line script that sets ownership of files for you on startup or scheduled to run regularly.

Scottland · 22 Nov 2008 at 22:13

Not really automated, just stick the files in the correct folder when they're done. Funny thing is, I've had this problem before but I fixed it/fixed itself prior to this install - I must be doing something different this time around.

Mud · 24 Nov 2008 at 21:58

I'm having the same problem, yet to find a cure.